Compassion, Cooperation, and Sacrifice

The author of the beautiful piece of writing below makes an excellent point. What we’re experiencing, in the main, is compassion for our fellow human beings.

We need to look at this as the warm-up act for a planetary challenge that lies in our near future: mitigating climate change and dealing with the other aspects of environmental collapse.

Like the coronavirus, this is an existential threat, and just like in this case, handling it will be impossible without the peoples of the world coming together as one.